The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 62
ig. 22). Of these M. Didron givesthe following description :— They were first formed of two openworkspheroids, in cast and chased copper, ornamented with figures of animalsand inscriptions. Originally they were suspended by three chains, which,according to tradition, signified the union of the… … Fig. 2i.—An Altar-Tray and Chalice, in enamelled gold, supposed to be of the Fourth or Fifth Century, foundat Gourdon, near Chalon-sur-Saône, in 1846. (Cabinet des Antiques, Bibl. Imp. de Paris.) From the first, the lighting of churches was, to a certain extent, carriedout on much the same…
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